RE: This is one for the Pros: cert is not privkey

2012-11-23 Thread Dave Thompson
From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Jakob Bohm Sent: Thursday, 22 November, 2012 04:07 (Since you top-posted, I will do so too in this thread) But I won't, because I answer multiple points from both of you. The certificate does not include the private key, only the public

Re: This is one for the Pros: cert is not privkey

2012-11-22 Thread Jakob Bohm
(Since you top-posted, I will do so too in this thread) The certificate does not include the private key, only the public key. In a real (not test) setup you would use these like this: 1. Use the certificate file alone on any computer to encrypt data using theopenssl cms or openssl pkcs7

Re: This is one for the Pros: cert is not privkey

2012-11-22 Thread Jeremy Hunt
Peter Parker wrote: Dave, Thank you for the quick and thorough response. This is good stuff. Yes, so the files I will be encrypting will be over 100 bytes. I am aware of the key size requirements - 1028 was only used as a placeholder for the

Re: This is one for the Pros: cert is not privkey

2012-11-21 Thread Peter Parker
Dave, Thank you for the quick and thorough response. This is good stuff. Yes, so the files I will be encrypting will be over 100 bytes. I am aware of the key size requirements - 1028 was only used as a placeholder for the example commands I provided. Does this mean that I will be able to use RSA

RE: This is one for the Pros: cert is not privkey

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Thompson
From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Peter Parker Sent: Tuesday, 20 November, 2012 20:59 Subject: This is one for the Pros Not really. This is pretty basic. I've been trying to generate a public/private key pair after generating the certificates, but OpenSSL